Mozilla Security Issue Fixed

The most popular browser in the world, Mozilla Firefox has fixed the security issue according to the PC Magazines. The Mozilla Foundation on Friday released an update to the company’s heralded new web browser, version 3.0.1, with fixes for security, stability, a printing issue, and problems involving running Firefox 2 simultaneously. It is better in overall than the last version (which is still the most famous one)

The most critical security fixes address a problem whereby an attacker could run code and install software, while requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing. Other problems included the mal ware database not updating on first launch, and the SSL certificate exception list not being properly saved.

The update also dealt with crashes using malformed GIF files on Mac OS X, command-line URLs that launch multiple tabs when Firefox is not running, and remote code execution by overflowing the CSS reference counter. Several stability issues addressed were not elaborated on, but one was noted in which having Firefox 2 installed alongside version 3 made the older version unstable. A printing issue was addressed, too: When you’d select a region from the middle of a web page for printing, some of the area would be cut off.
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